Windows 10: Digital Transformation through Affordable Innovation

Digital transformation is the process of using today’s technology to modernize outdated processes and meet the most pressing needs of your business.

Thanks to recent advances in lower cost tablet technology and Microsoft’s suite of cloud and productivity services, complete digital transformation is more accessible now than ever before. A new class of affordable devices is revolutionizing the way businesses and their employees work and interact with customers.

edgeSuite is a fully secure, system control plane that integrates your applications and data into SPoG (Single Pane of Glass) in a 4D solution. edgeSuite is unique in the marketplace because it incorporates the data within your environment, and the methods used to manage your business to create a single tool for both back-end and front-end solutions. When you are dealing with multiple data sets and multiple data sources, you are faced with the problem of complex navigation of different software solutions, and the inability to access them simultaneously in an efficient and effective way. Come to our webinar and learn how you can optimize your current Micro Focus investments. Seeing is believing!

A recent survey conducted by Ensono, in partnership with the Cloud Industry Forum, showed that 89% of respondents believed that legacy technology was a barrier to effective digital transformation. Given that many organisations operate a complex technology landscape often with elements in different locations, and with core components that are regarded as ‘legacy but critical’, there needs to be a clear and simple approach to overcoming these obstacles.

Breaking down the barriers requires effective change in people, process and technology to attain a viable level velocity that will enable transformation without being held back by perceptions of legacy issues.

Examining these issues, this webinar will provide insight and thought provoking approaches for organisations seeking to transform their operations against this backdrop.

IBM Mainframe and IBM i (iSeries-AS/400) environments continue to play a very critical part in today’s corporate IT infrastructures, processing some of the most valued and important data. Learn how one of the world’s largest insurance companies brought their IBM environments into the modern era by extending their Micro Focus Universal Discovery (UD) platform to include the key IBM systems.

The company’s former process of conducting manual audits was a time consuming, resource intensive, and outdated way of doing things at best. Attendees will:

•Learn how the combination of Micro Focus Software and EView Technology provided a cost-effective, comprehensive, automated, and real-time view of their business services across their multi-IBM system enterprise
•Hear a brief overview of the architecture of the solution and the business benefits
•View a short demo of the seamless integration

Every day big data becomes bigger, and each day enterprises are coming up with new use cases for the data they have at their disposal. Finding systems that have the capabilities and the horsepower to deliver on the use case is a challenge. Greenlight Group will review one such use case, and how Operations Bridge System Collectors and Operations Bridge Analytics were leveraged to harness the power of big data to process millions per day and provide near live dashboards of critical IBM DataPower statistics for one of its customers.

We will show real world Perl scripting examples for you to try in your environment.

This Vivit SIG Talk session will feature speakers who will share their vast knowledge and experience on Mainframe to Universal Discovery (UD), Data Analysis with Operations Bridge and Vertica into BVD.

This Vivit SIG Talk session will feature speakers who will share their vast knowledge and experience on SiteScope and OMi. Vivit is excited to present this informative SIG Talk on these important topics.

Shown below is an outline of the agenda and topics:

Speaker: Nels Hoenig
Web Site Monitoring using SiteScope the WebScript Monitor Tool and a LoadRunner Script: Join us for this presentation of the power of a SiteScope Webscript to monitor your websites in a production environment to provide real time checking on a website including interactions ( login, screen validation, etc). Learn how this will also generate alerts to the OPS team when something is wrong.

Speaker: Bogdan Vosnjak
Surviving OMW to OMi Migration: The customer with a well-developed OMW-based monitoring solution was faced with a challenge to migrate to OMi10 due to OMW obsolescence. Their old monitoring system was deeply integrated, highly customized and exposed to the outside world (their partners and customers) on a 24/7 basis. Migration challenges included:

Leading The Intelligent Operations with Micro Focus Operations Bridge (OpsBridge)

The management of IT Operations in a dynamic and highly scalable MSP environment can be difficult. With the right partner and strong expertise, you can be helped to lead in the “New”. Join Kulvinder Singh from Accenture as he discusses the deployment of OpsBridge as standard within their MSP Platform. Learn the objectives, scope, methodology, and results of their deployment, as Accenture continues to scale and mature this capability with the increasing number of their clients.

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, May 17, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1089263&group=.

This Vivit SIG Talk session will feature 2 speakers who will share their vast knowledge and experience on SACM Practice and Micro Focus Operations Bridge. Vivit is excited to present this informative SIG Talk on these important topics.
Shown below is an outline of the agenda and topics:

Speaker: Bill Curran
Areas of Focus to Create a Successful SACM Practice: For Citizens Bank, major difficulties were encountered not just in implementing software itself, but in creating a sustainable and successful Service Asset and Configuration Management (SACM) practice. Come and learn 3 key areas to focus on to create and sustain a successful SACM process in order to:
- Provide robust reporting for audit and regulations
- Promote and maintain confidence in the quality of CMS data
- Provide ITSM users with the information they need, when they
need it

Speaker: Kulvinder Singh
Leading The Intelligent Operations with Micro Focus Operations Bridge (OpsBridge): The management of IT Operations in a dynamic and highly scalable MSP environment can be difficult. With the right partner and strong expertise, you can be helped to lead in the “New”. Join Kulvinder Singh from Accenture as he discusses the deployment of OpsBridge as standard within their MSP Platform. Learn the objectives, scope, methodology, and results of their deployment, as Accenture continues to scale and mature this capability with the increasing number of their clients.

Join us for the next upcoming SIG Talk on Tuesday, May 17, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1089263&group=.

SMB to Enterprise-level organizations are increasingly using or considering the use of outsourced IT infrastructure providers to remain cost-effectively competitive and productive. But while the rewards may be attractive, there are inherent risks that need to be understood.

If you are considering moving your infrastructure to an IT provider, or changing your current provider, join us during this 30-minute webinar to hear more about:

• Outsourced IT Infrastructure Drivers
• Common Risks and Rewards
• Frustrations that Customers Have Had with Service Providers
• Case study of a Customer that Moved Their Infrastructure to Steadfast and Why
• How Steadfast Approaches IT Infrastructure Management Differently
• Live Q&A

Getting help to manage your IT Infrastructure can help you to regain focus on your core business. But, before you make that move, make sure you understand all the nuances of your decision.

A “real” migration into the Hybrid Cloud (HCM, PlateSpin, and Cloud Assess)

The Hybrid cloud has either been a unicorn (something beautiful but not real) or a boogey man (something to prevent disruption) in our ecosystem for the last several years. In marketing and static architectures, we have seen a lot of promises, but very little actual progress.

Hybrid Cloud is becoming more important everyday as nearly all companies are in (or will be in) the public cloud but many of these same companies ‘know’ that they cannot be 100% public. So, the problem we are all trying to solve is how can we provide all the features, functions and automations.
What will be covered:

Vivit launches its first ever IT Operation Management (ITOM) SIG Talk event. We have 3 speakers who will give you insights in the ITSMA Containers Concept and migration into the Hybrid Cloud. They will share their knowledge and expertise and provide thought-provoking and actionable content.

Shown below is an outline of the agenda and topics:

•Speaker: Eric Krueger
Everything you need to know about the Micro Focus ITSMA Containers Concept: Containers are here and they are the best way to deploy, maintain and upgrade software. What are containers? How are they deployed? How is the software different on containers than traditional platforms? Why did HPE/Micro Focus decide on a containerization approach to their ITSM suite? Tune in and find out why containers are the deployment method of the future and how to transition your existing ITSM suite from your Linux or Windows environment to a Containerized environment.

•Speakers: David Angradi
A “real” migration into the Hybrid Cloud (HCM, PlateSpin, and Cloud Assess): The Hybrid cloud has either been a unicorn (something beautiful but not real) or a boogey man (something to prevent disruption) in our ecosystem for the last several years. In marketing and static architectures, we have seen a lot of promises, but very little actual progress.

Hybrid Cloud is becoming more important everyday as nearly all companies are in (or will be in) the public cloud but many of these same companies ‘know’ that they cannot be 100% public. So, the problem we are all trying to solve is how can we provide all the features, functions and automations.

Business pressures are driving many IT organizations toward faster release cadence, Lean, and more Agile-like development processes. Many groups have developed processes and practices that already work very effectively, without requiring significant change. But to succeed in a bimodal world, many customers are looking at multiple tools to support newer practices and Continuous Integration (CI). Micro Focus ALM customers already have access to the tools and capabilities to succeed.

Join this webinar:

To understand what’s new in the Micro Focus ALM portfolio
To see all the new capabilities that help you unlock your existing investment. To view a demonstration of the latest capabilities in the ALM platform, including the integrations between ALM and ALM Octane and the Development, Testing, and Build environments

The Data Centre Maturity Model (DCMM) was created by The Green Grid and can help assess the current and desired states of your data centre(s), highlighting areas that could be enhanced using a maturity modeling approach.

This webinar covers the various legislation and policies, at a European level as well as their application in four different countries, namely: United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany and France. Legislation and Policies have an important role to play to steer, stimulate and support new products and services but also new business models.

Listen to Sophie Legault, Director of T&D Business Unit at EXFO as she talks about the 4G to 5G transition, the implication of highly dense networks, impact on the costs of maintenance on fronthaul networks and the challenges MNOs may face. She will also delve into best practices for addressing interference and PIM in mobile networks and improving the quality of fiber-based fronthaul and CRAN deployments.

Project and Portfolio Management, PPM, is continuously evolving, especially with the Agile adoption in the Enterprise. Portfolio managers are now asked to manage integrated portfolios with hybrid projects (Waterfall & Agile).

PPM version 9.42 brings a new portfolio management module, including Epic and seamless integration with Agile tools. You can now create your own KPIs to measure success of the various portfolios and integrated programs and projects. These new features bring agility and more insight data, so that you can focus on what is most important for the business.

In this webinar, you will learn about:

New integrated PPM Portfolio management
How to create unlimited portfolio scenarios
How to create Epics in PPM and integrate with Agile tools
New KPIs to monitor and measure portfolio strategy

Brought to you by the Vivit DevOps Special Interest Group.
DevOps is setting the pace as numerous organizations struggle to keep up…especially with test automation. It's imperative to have an automation test strategy allowing fast automation script development, solid data management, minimal maintenance, and scalability. This presentation will provide an overview of implementing a strategic test automation framework in a DevOps environment, and is completely tool agnostic. So, whether your team is utilizing UFT, UFT Pro, LeanFT, Selenium, or any other automation solution, you’ll benefit from this presentation.

Would you like to stay ahead of the curve with your network management solution? Are you thinking about how new technology could impact your teams? What about managing software-defined networking segments within your enterprise network? And, how about security being a much larger component of your day to day activities?

Join us for this webinar to learn:

How these disruptions will impact your business. Discuss what Gartner calls, “NetOps 2.0” where network operations teams must evolve to support analytics and automation. As part of your attendance, receive full access to this important document that we believe could re-shape the future of your teams.

Key insights from our exclusive survey of network professionals around SDN. Did you know that 57% of your peers have deployed or are actively deploying SDN? We discuss their insight that speaks to the future of network management with SDNs.

Learn about the important new capabilities of Network Operations Management and new features included in the latest releases of Network Node Manager and Network Automation. Learn how we’re supporting SDN, enabling security risk visibility and compliance, and implementing advanced lifecycle management with our latest releases.

In this last of a 3 part webinar series presented by Greenlight, Micro Focus Product Management and Greenlight group will provide an overview of the current state of IT Operations Management technologies running on enterprise grade cloud native technology stacks. Join us, and come up to speed as the experts provide a high level overview of Network Operations, Hybrid Cloud, and Datacenter Automation suites from the Micro Focus ITOM portfolio running in a Docker & Kubernetes orchestrated environment.

This webinar is brought to you by the Vivit DevOps Special Interest Group.

Businesses need to be more responsive to market changes and meeting customer demand for improved services and better user experiences. In order to meet such high expectations and be competitive in your market, it requires great flexibility and speed throughout the organization. DevOps enables your software development, infrastructure and operations teams to identify and eliminate inefficiencies through communication, collaboration, and automation.